Lazily Yours.

Ralia City was now one of the most progressive cities, not just in Shun Regions, but also in the entire country. Unlike the Ralia from the past that was full of forest and mountains, the Ralia now had sky scrappers, an airport, and some other infrastructures that slowly made it the economic center of Shun Regions.

Despite this, she could smell something from this place.

Gun powder.

Now… this building was in the middle of the city. Other buildings and people surrounded it. So where did that gun powder come from? Clearly… it is from underground.

Since her senses had improved, it had become natural for her to smell things that ordinary people couldn't smell.

Gabi or now known as Leo, stood in front of one of the tallest buildings in Ralia. She was wearing a simple black tactical pants and blank tank tops. A bag was hanging in her shoulder. She stared at the entrance of the building. This place was tall — probably one of the tallest that she had seen in Ralia City.

"Excuse me? Do you need something?"

"Oh… Tartarus…" Gabi uttered the code at the balding man who approached her. "Number 76700083921888." This was her code. To be able to get inside Tartarus, Gabi needed three things. She needed to be registered in advance. Her face, height, weight was already recorded in advance. The second is the code that she gave just now. And third is the ability to pass a series of examinations that would be given.

Once they passed it, they can go ahead and go to their assigned dorm. Tureis already told her that the training would officially start a week after her arrival. At this time, the people that were already registered were just arriving.

"Follow me." The balding man leads her to the lobby and asked the receptionist to give her the VVIP ID. Then he led her to the elevator. After entering a series of codes, the elevator started moving… down.

Underground.

She already expected that Tartarus would be under the ground, but she never thought that it would take them at least three minutes to arrive. She couldn't help but wonder how many feet below the ground she was. "The test will begin in two minutes. First, IQ. Three hundred items in two hours. Second, shooting. All moving targets. Third martial art. No need to defeat him. Just do not faint for the next three minutes. The test will begin even if you are not ready." The man left without looking at her again.

So what would happen if one would fail the test?

Everyone here was already skilled. The exam was just a part of their process. However, failing at it means you are going to undergo a different class and have a different type of training. Gabi wondered why they would do this. Surely, killing someone did not require them to answer a mathematical question, right?

She never had the chance to ask Tureis about this matter. However, her question was answered soon.

The moment she laid her eyes on the examination, she immediately realized why they needed to take the test.

It was because the questions were not merely testing one's IQ. It was full of military tactics. Gabi guessed that these people would give other pieces of training to the people who are good at planning and analyzing situations and the people who are just good at killing. However, this begs the question of why.

Why do this?

Isn't this a school of assassins?

It seems that this school is not just that. She needed to be more careful in this place.

After an hour, Gabi finished her exam. And since she still have another hour before the second test would start, she chose to sit down and relax. The room where she was taking her exam wasn't huge. Aside from the table and chair that she was sitting on, the room was surrounded by mirrors. It looked like an advanced interrogation room for sci-fi movies, except this one looked more sci-fi-ish. If that makes sense.

The surrounding lights were bright — too bright. She didn't like it. The room was about four meters squared. Just enough for one person. If her guess was right, then each participant have their own room. Perhaps it was done to avoid cheating.

After another hour, the mirrors suddenly move without any warning. In fact, not just the mirrors, but the table slowly descended on the floor. Then, the room completely changed. From the small examination room, it turned into a shooting range. There were no other instructions given, no voice telling her when to start.

Aside from the timer that says thirty minutes, there were no simple instructions about the things that she needed to do. She looked at the moving targets. Each of them was about thirty feet away from her. If this was the normal Gabi, the Gabi who didn't receive any help from Aden, she wouldn't be able to hit them even if they weren't moving. However, she was different now. Her eyes were undeniably clearer. She could see everything well. Even the fact that some of the moving targets didn't look like terrorist were really clear.

She looked at the short firearm in front of her. They were Glocks and various calibers. However, not one of them has a telescope. Now thirty meters weren't that far. However, one needed to think about the target, too.

There were two types of moving targets. One ground was wearing black with a clear terrorist printed on their shirts while the others were wearing civilian clothing. And none of them have a gun in them. However, Gabi was quick to notice that the ones wearing civilian clothing looked alert and wary. None of them looked innocent at all. They were not smiling and their eyes were pretty sharp.

Meanwhile, some of the people wearing black clothing had anxious looks on their faces. Some of them have tears in their eyes and some apparent bruising on their faces. Squinting, Gabi's eyes landed on the timer. It had started a couple of minutes ago. Right now, she still has twenty-six minutes before the timer would end.

After the conclusion, Gabi picked one of the guns, attached a silencer to it, and started shooting the civilians.

*DING*

Three minutes later. She finished shooting everyone that looked suspicious. Both people wearing civilian articles of clothing and the people wearing black ones who had a suspicious look on their faces were taken down.

At first glance, one would say that Gabi was wrong for shooting the civilians. However, Gabi wasn't dumb. Gabi recalled how Tureis and Aden told her that everyone in this place already knew martial arts. Some of them might have even killed people before. Meaning, shooting people wasn't the problem.

The problem lies in the target.

An impulsive killer wouldn't think much about these and just shoot all the terrorists. But Gabi was different. She wasn't a killer; she was a thinker. If given a chance, she would do everything to avoid killing innocents. Therefore, when she realized that the problem lies in the target, she immediately analyzed what was going on and come to a conclusion.

The terrorists switch their clothes with the hostages.

With this in mind, Gabi smiled in satisfaction. Her shooting wasn't perfect, and it took her a couple of times to shoot some targets. However, she felt confident that she did the right thing.

Slowly the clock ticked and the thirty minutes was done. Again, the room slowly changed. This time, it revealed a boxing ring. Gabi observed the room. The absence of a timer seemed a little off to her. The balding man earlier said that she needed to survive for three minutes. However, there was no timer around.

What was around her was the table where the Glocks were located. Even the guns were still there.

Gabi lifted an eyebrow. Then she glanced at the man wearing a black suit who stood inside the ring. Slowly, a smile appeared on her face.

…..

"How is it?" Ma Ping asked the people monitoring the examinations. "Any promising ones?" he sat on his table and stared at the tens of monitors that showed each participant. "The ones that the people from Du Empire sent… I assumed they got the highest score in the exams?" he asked, smiling.

"Well… Mr. Lane was an excellent fellow. He got ninety-five percent on the exam. He was also able to analyze that there was something wrong with the target. It took him about twenty minutes to finish the targets. As expected, his shooting skills were excellent. No misses."

"But?" Ma Ping looks at his right-hand man.

"He wasn't the top of this batch."

"Oh? Then… was it one of the others from Du Empire?"

"No Sir."

"Was it the ones sent from other countries? Mr. Lane already has a very good result. Ninety fiver percent in the exams alone is a very hard thing to achieve. The fact that he was able to figure out that something was wrong with the target in that time frame wasn't bad at all."

"No sir."

"Really? Then... who could it be?"

"It- It was just a nobody."

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Already edited previous chapter. Sorry about that... last night the rain here is terrible. My signal was really bad.